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STAR1 is a bipedal robot created by the Chinese company Robot Era. He is 1.7 meters tall and weighs 65 kilos. In the trailer, the creators pitted two such machines against each other in the Gobi desert in northwestern China, but one of them was given a pair of ordinary sneakers to see if it would provide better results. Much to the surprise of the experimenters, it worked, as seen in the Robot Age video.

With high-torque motors and artificial intelligence algorithms controlling the robot’s movements, the sneaker-clad STAR1 moved across different types of terrain, including meadows, gravel, asphalt and dirt. Maintaining top speed non-stop for 34 minutes.

Maximum speed of 12.8 kilometers per hour, Beats Unitree’s H1 robot performanceThe previous speed record for bipedal robots reached 11.9 kilometers per hour in March 2024. However, it is worth noting that both of these cars operate in different styles; therefore, their comparison may not be entirely fair without additional testing.

According to Robot Era, STAR1 runs on AI hardware with 275 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of computing power. This is much more than the typical AI processing power found in many high-end laptops, which ranges from 45 to 55 TOPS. The robot also has 12 degrees of freedom, which means the number of joints and range of motion it can perform.

How a robot ran in sneakers: video

STAR1 is just one of many humanoid robots that companies around the world have introduced in recent months. These include Tesla’s Optimus Gen-2 robot, the artificially intelligent Figure 01 robot, and Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas.